I Hate Instant Replay

Instant Replay / I Vote No

If you are sitting on the fifty, mid-court, luxury box, enjoying a few beers with buds at the local bar or even watching on your insanely large 80" Plasma at home, the words you now dread to hear are, "the previous play is under review".
Technology is ruining spectator sports, especially Football and Basketball as we used to know them. The pursuit to correctly break down each and every play in a football game or significant moments in basketball games like last second shots, has turned me off so much that I'm thinking about watching cartoons (Bugs Bunny is my all time favorite) rather than tuning in another game that lasts far too long and disrupts the normal flow of a game. Human error is part of the game. If human error is part of the game, let the officials call the game. Players, coaches and officials will make mistakes. It's all part of the game we love best.

I have basically had it. Throw in the fact that many of these reviews still don't get it right. They seem to take forever or should I say as long for the network to run like 8 or 10 commercials. I only wish you can hear my blood curdling screams. My wife unfortunately can.

Last nights Colorado / Arizona Pac-12 basketball game that opened conference play for each team is a perfect example of what's wrong with referees being able to overturn something they already have correctly ruled on. The play in question at the end of the game was a bang bang shot right at the buzzer. Did the shot beat the game clock or was it late. They ruled initially the shot was good. Then the fun started. The ref's are subjected to look at TV monitors and slo-mo playbacks provided by television replays. Angle after angle, real time and slo-mo over and over and over again. Did he or didn't he release the ball before the clock expired? And after all the looks they disallowed the bucket and the game went into overtime.

Did I mention the game was played in Tucson, on UA's home court in front of a raucous pro UA crowd. And Arizona won in OT.

I was so ticked off I refused to go back to viewing the Fiesta Bowl between Oregon and Kansas State fearing another break in the action so a zebra would consult another tv monitor.
I immediately switched to CBS and watched Person of Interest. At least it wasn't a re-run!